Of course, if you live in Calgary and you have to drive anywhere via Deerfoot, Crowchild or Genmore anywhere near rush-hour times you're painfully aware of how congested the traffic is, no need for realtime updates when there's 40 cars of stop and go in front of you.

First few were via sneakernet....

Slackware > Debian > Slackware > Mandrake > Slackware > Redhat > Slackware > SuSE > Slackware....

And there have been secondary machines with Libranet, Ubuntu, Xandros, Puppy Linux, various BSD's and such. Even took SkyOS and QNX for a spin on the desktop, but Slackware will always be the favourite, methinks.

I've been using tomato on mine for about 9 months or so and haven't had any problems/issues whatsoever. Never used the original linksys firmware, so I can't comment on how it compares stability-wise. My suggestion would be to try several firmwares before deciding on which one would best suit your needs. Upgrading my router to tomato was easy, painless and took about 5 minutes, IIRC.

Not in the first gen product, gotta hold back the lasers for the following year's model. And the laser will only fire if the shark stops swimming, no multitasking!

So, if I own a plane and want to transport a few hundred kilos of pot I should be allowed to? I've handled explosives before, if I owned a plane should I be allowed to do the same with a few hundred kilos of that? Dangerous territory. I think the authorities were correct, illegal/not permitted is simply that. They're responsible for pretty much everything that flies, for the safety of the airspace, aren't they? Partially at least. Fame shouldn't be a factor. Once arbitrary decisions start being made you'll end up with aviation security rules equivalent to the approval process of the app store. Not that I agree with many of the current rules, but I'd rather they err on the side of caution.

Without taking a stance on the whole piracy issue, this does work with a HTC Dream on a 120gb ps3 slim. Only problem is that it breaks wifi and sd storage (on the phone) until you reflash.

No. Greedo was cool.

Jar-Jar shoots George Lucas in added cameo scene.
Jar-Jar shoots young Anakin.
Jar-Jar shoots adolescent Anakin.
Jar-Jar shoots self.

If I can play and beat the game in three hours, and it has no replay value, then it sucks.

Crysis anyone?

Give the user a box and ask.

Good luck with that. I'm still using firefox 2.0.0.20 simply because the awesome-bar was a dealbreaker for me since day one. And no, the 'oldbar' addon just makes it look the same, when the old behaviour is what I want most. What makes it even more depressing is how every other browser on the face of the earth which supports ad-blockers and noscript add-ons have followed mozilla over that cliff.

Lynx is looking more and more attractive by the day.

Funny, whenever I hear "walled gardens" in reference to appstores in general I tend to think of minimum-security prisons rather than Disneyland.

That's just because they had no free bumpers to give away.

While I agree with most of what you say, I think that if it were done with a ton of testing before release, a fps could work out quite well. The catch is you'd have to keep the console gamers confined to a tailor made 'class', say a heavy-armor soldier with heavy firepower, and keep pc gamers with lightly-armored and lightly weaponized soldiers. Rather than worrying about how to balance classes using the traditional methods, use the limitations of the differences between the console and pc as the limits of the playable characters in the game itself. We expect heavier classes to turn slower, move slower than lighter classes. Not sure if most gamers have both a console and a pc, but I'd guess that many do. Of course, the best scenario of this would have it sold as downloadable content, which could be installed on both a console and pc, while only being charged for a single copy (playable key) of the game itself (I figure we're dreaming of cross-platform gloriousness anyways.) Part of me still wishes, of course, that they still had released it anyways... who wouldn't want to beat up on console gamers all night long? I'd have bought a copy.

If it wasn't the case, then why did the iPhone sell like hot cakes in markets where AT&T was known to have shitty service?

Zynga made 100 million last year selling virtual goods. During a recession. 'Why' people would fork up their cash for something they know is faulty isn't based on sound reasoning. They buy it 'cause it's hot. They buy it because they had the previous generation or 'cause Android just doesn't appeal to them. They buy it 'cause its the next generation and they can't wait another 12 months for iphone 5. They're the Vista users of the phone world.

I just got satellite installed a couple of weeks ago purely for the World Cup, and I certainly don't plan on keeping it for very long after that. The other channels are infested with ads, and I too, can't imagine how anyone can tolerate them, I can barely tolerate the vuvuzelas. What gets me is the frequency that the same ad is shown, over and over, many times in the same commercial break. I just can't take that kind of audiobashing. The 'mute' button on my remote always seems to be the first to wear out. I'm really thinking of giving Netflix a try though, simply because of the Playstation 3 support.

There's absolutely no way whatsoever Apple's current success can have been achieved primarily by marketing. For marketing to work, long-term, you have to have a great product behind it.

Not necessarily. Apple has their 'loyal following', which would buy anything put out by Apple. Jobs et al could launch gold-plated dog turds emblazoned with apple logos and announce that it was a 'revolutionary, magical device that provides the best experience of holding down papers on our desks' and they'd still sell half a million units on launch day at a horribly inflated price. I'm not a die-hard apple hater, xbox 360 fandom suffers from the same problem. I personally know people who are on their third, fourth or fifth consoles, and while the failure rate has gone down, it's not what I would call a great product... unless I was the manufacturer I guess.